On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:30 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2013 7:51 PM, "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >> > Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > >> > > For custom builds of Git it sometimes is inconvenient to annotate tags >> > > because there simply is nothing to say, so do not require an >> > > annotation. >> > > >> > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> >> > > --- >> > >> > Hmmmm, personally I'd actually want this to stay the way it is, or >> > even require a valid signed tag, in order to make sure I won't >> > mistakenly creating a lightweight tag. >> >> So the only user Git should care about is you? If Git can make _you_ more >> confortable not making certain mistakes, then that's the way it should be? > > Yes, certainly. Why would you think otherwise? The whole purpose of a public software project is that it's useful to others. >> What's the point of lightweight tags anyway? 'git describe' doesn't use >> them, >> GIT-VERSION-GEN neither, just remove them already. > > RTFM I don't see anything in the manual explaining why lightweight tags are useful, if all the Git tools just ignore them, and why the do that. >> For the vast majority of the people out there, a tag is a tag. Period. > > Not for me. You are wrong. You are not the vast majority, you are a single person. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html